ballsy

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Vulgar Slang Very tough and courageous, often recklessly or presumptuously so.

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adj. Tough and courageous; having balls.

Etymologies

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Examples

I’d almost call it ballsy if the ABC execs didn’t just blindly lap it up as a self-contained storyline with lots of skin, lots of needless re-capping of main story arc points, and (gulp!) a treasure … which you know they did.

But all of these "truth-telling," "ground-breaking," "ballsy," so-called rebels, however much they might now tiptoe around "the N word," tiptoe more around words hat would be really dangerous to use, especially in self-examination: The R word: Racist.